Fargo pairs up with some prison-breaking brothers… In the rough woodlands of Oregon Territory, Skye Fargo is shaking hands with death after a vicious grizzly attack leaves him bloodied, mauled, and far from help. Fortunately, he’s rescued to by the Bryan brothers. Unfortunately, two of the Bryans have just been busted out of prison by the third, and now they’re riding for their lives. Normally, Fargo wouldn’t cotton to jailbreakers—but the Bryons aren’t as guilty as some may have made them look, and there are corrupt officials who don’t want the truth to get out. Now, with a trio of convicts at his side, the Trailsman is going to deliver some justice of his own…
Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Oregon, with compelling legends of the Beaver State's most despicable desperadoes. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, and hiss at lawmen turned outlaws.
The lives and exploits of notorious bad men like Harry Tracy and Bill Miner are revealed in this latest addition to TwoDot's Outlaw Tales series, along with lesser-known but equally fascinating outlaws who made careers of murder and mayhem in Oregon's Wild West. Discover the wild ones who terrorized banks, robbed trains, and made Oregon their home for ruthless living. Author Jim Yuskavitch has worked as a freelance writer and photographer since 1993. His other books include Fishing Oregon and Oregon Nature Weekends. He lives in Sisters, Oregon.
"Contained within the pages of this two volume set are hundreds of short stories retelling the history and exciting day-to-day experiences of the early Oregon pioneers. These stories were passed down to their family descendants and printed in the Sunday Oregonian newspapers in 1935-36"--Publisher's description.
Contained within the pages of this two volume set are hundreds of amazing true short stories. Relive the adventures and exciting day-to-day experiences of the early pioneers who walked 2,000 miles on the Oregon Trail to the new land of their dreams--Oregon. Imagine the hardships they endured during the six to seven months in the wilderness: deadly diseases, attacks by Indians and wild animals, broken down covered wagons, crippling accidents, choking dust, rutted and muddy mountain trails, rushing rivers, and sudden snowstorms. The threat of their livestock being stolen or stampeded, the lack of suitable grass for their animals, drowning, and the shortage of their own food and clean water supply was a constant worry for these determined pioneers. Death took its toll on these families. Thousands of hastily dug graves lined the trail. It is estimated that fifty-three thousand brave souls had successfully made the adventurous journey by the year 1860. Some even being born along the way. Before the white man brought diseases, alcohol, and firearms, the Indian population numbered in the tens of thousands with nearly one hundred tribes and bands. By 1860, less than two thousand Indians could be found living in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. From late summer into early winter a continuous stream of exhausted, near-starving wagon-train pioneers poured into Oregon and Washington. Remember, that once they arrived they had to build a rustic log cabin, shelter for their livestock, a hole dug for the outhouse, land cleared, the fertile land plowed and prepared for planting crops (that wouldn't be harvested for another year) from precious, secret caches of vegetable seeds, grains, and tubers carefully packed for the journey and hidden in flour bags and bedding. Survival became the primary objective, but they occasionally had a little fun and, of course, romance. These are the stories they told their friends and attentive grandchildren. The stories they lived and shared are the stories we read today. Let us not forget what they did. Gentry W. Cutsforth
